The Sun is not known for being quiet. It blasts out energy equivalent to 100 billion nuclear bombs every single second, routinely hurls billion tonne clouds of magnetized plasma into space, and occasionally treats us to auroras visible as far south as my home in Norfolk, UK. But even by the Sun's own extraordinary standards, something that began on an unremarkable day in August 2025 turned out to be genuinely remarkable – and it took a small fleet of spacecraft spread across the inner solar